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CATEGORY OF ACTUALITY (REALITY)

[A225/B272] According to the postulate of actuality, for us to be entitled to judge that a putative empirical object is actual, "what we require is the connection of the object with some actual perception, in accordance with the analogies of experience, which define all real connection in an experience in general." Thus Kant employs a coherence theory of (the nature of, and also of the test for) truth.